Monday 18 - Friday 22 May
‘the slower we go, the faster we get there’ is a phrase often referenced in relation to trauma healing.
This residency week will explore improvisation as a way to access different states safely and exploratively – letting the body reveals things before the mind knows them/ or logic can decide what happens next.
How can resilience and understanding be built through the body and in relation to one another? How does improvisation practice support us to move safely through different states of nervous system activation in the body? How do we stay connected through difference, difficult feelings and change? How can dance resource us, how can we resource the dance?
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Friday 22 May | 15:00 – 16:00 | £free | Book Now
About Hannah Draper
Hannah is a dance artist based in Glasgow. Their practice pivots around improvisation, somatic practices and site-specific research relating to deep time, cultivating kin-making practices, developing long-term thinking and ‘slowing’ practices. They also work as an Access Support Worker for disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill artists, a Facilitator with young people and a producer and co-ordinator for arts and community projects. More recently they have begun counselling and trauma healing somatic training, and will be starting a Somatic Psychology course in May 2026.
Collaborators
Alex Henderson – dance artist
Alliyah Enyo – sound artist and composer
Skye Reynolds – dance artist and Somatic Movement Educator
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